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Technion's civil engineering faculty in 1996 as a lecturer. He became a senior lecturer in 1999. Shiftan was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2016. From 2019 he holds
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Israeli guide for Transport Project Evaluation and advised on the demand models, planning, and cost benefits of major investments. These include the
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Shiftan Y., âWhich road do I take? A learning-based model of route-choice behavior with real-time information.â Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 249â264,
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Etzioni, S., Daziano, R., Ben-Elia, E, & Shiftan, Y., âPreferences for Shared Automated Vehicles: A Hybrid Latent Class Modeling Approachâ Transportation Research C, 125, 2021
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Cohen-Blankshtain, G., Bar-Gera, H., Shiftan, Y., "Congestion pricing and positive incentives: conceptual analysis and empirical findings from Israelâ Transportation, on-line 2022
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Levine, Jonathan; Zellner, Moira; Arquero de AlarcĂłn, MarĂa; Shiftan, Yoram; Massey, Dean (2018-07-04).
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